Conversations on Art: Amanda Yates Garcia, hosted by Meg Linton

Amanda Yates Garcia is a writer, witch, and the Oracle of Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The LA Times, The SF Chronicle, The London Times, CNN, BRAVO, as well as a viral appearance on FOX. She has led rituals, classes and workshops on magic and witchcraft at UCLA, UC Irvine, MOCA, The Hammer Museum, LACMA, The Getty and many other venues. Amanda hosts monthly moon rituals online, and the popular Between the Worlds podcast, which looks at the Western Mystery traditions through a mythopoetic lens. Her book, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, received a starred review from Kirkus and Publisher's Weekly and has been translated into six languages. --- Meg Linton has 20+ years of experience as a director and curator of contemporary art spaces. Meg is best known for her exhibitions, programs, and publications she curated during her decade-long tenure as the Director of Galleries and Exhibitions at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Currently, she is working on an exhibition about the life and work of artist Keith Julius Puccinelli for the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara; is lead producer on a documentary film about 1970s-80s feminist performance art in Los Angeles called ACTING LIKE WOMEN directed by Cheri Gaulke; Studio Manager for Steve Roden at inbetweennoise.com; the new Administrator of the Claire Falkenstein Foundation; and she is researching and writing an historical novel about a suffragette in the Mid-West. You can find her on Instagram @meg_linton. https://www.brentwoodart.org